imap uids in index
Philipp Gesang
phg+lists at phi-gamma.net
Mon Mar 26 18:32:28 UTC 2018
2018-03-24 (Saturday), kevin at 8t8.us (Kevin J. McCarthy):
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 01:40:21PM +0100, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> > sometimes I need to refer to the UIDs corresponding to messages
> > on the server for debugging reasons. I’ve been patching mutt for
> > a while to add an index format to accomplish that.
> >
> > Would something like the attached patch be acceptable for
> > upstreaming? Please let me know if that is the case; I’ll polish
> > up the patch and resubmit.
>
> Hi Philipp,
>
> Thank you for sending the patch!
>
> Technically the patch looks fine, but after thinking about it, I'm -1 on
> committing this. The UID isn't exposed in any other way, and generally
> isn't interesting to users. If we expose it in the index_format it
> opens up questions of limiting, sorting, etc.
That’s fine, I figured it might be out of scope for a MUA.
Thanks,
Philipp
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